River
Guayamouc River
113 km from source to mouth · Haiti.
HaitiFlows into Artibonite River3rd longest in Haiti
In numbers
Length
113km
Average flow
27m³/s
Basin
1,686km²
Drop
320m
from 511 m to 191 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
113 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 511 m
- 65 kmPedro Santana1,170 people
- 72 kmBánica1,443 people
- 113 kmArtibonite Riverat 191 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Haiti
At the mouth it carries 27 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 94 seconds. It drops from 511 m to 191 m, 2.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 1,686 km², about the size of GP. 125,000 people live in it. Highest water: June and from September to October; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BánicaLargest city on its banks · 1,443 people
- Toussaint Louverture International Airport (PAP)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 83 km from the cityCar hire at PAP airport (Port-au-Prince)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to MarchThe best months to visit
Guayamouc River, month by month
Highest water: June and from September to October
Lowest water: from December to March. Best months to visit: from December to March.
From about 11 m³/s in the lowest month to 57 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
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The basin
Guayamouc River: the basin in numbers
1,686 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 125,000people live in the basin
- 74/km²people per km²
- 671maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,566mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.1°Caverage air temperature
- 9%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 34% Forest
- 34% Cropland
- 31% Pasture
- 2% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Guayamouc River: what you find on the way
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Guayamouc River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
26mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (26)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Cerro de la Yerba Páez6.3 km away
- Cerro Trinitaria6.3 km away
- Mont Grimé2.0 km away
- Morne Citadelle9.0 km away
- Cerro de Jiménez14 km away
- Cerro de la Jina Mocha14 km away
- Loma Gajo de Las Tres Palmas13 km away
- Loma Capotillo14 km away
18 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Guayamouc River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Artibonite RiverHaiti240 km99 m³/s
Dominican Republic
CubaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3040461) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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